Labor/Employment,
Criminal,
Corporate
May 11, 2021
Employee charged with COVID relief fraud? Questions for GCs
The U.S. Department of Justice already has publicly charged almost 500 defendants with criminal offenses based on fraud schemes connected to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Byron J. McLain
Partner
Foley & Lardner LLP
Phone: (213) 972-4780
Email: bmclain@foley.com
Harvard Univ Law School; Cambridge MA
Byron is a white collar defense and heath care litigation partner and recently served as the Health Care Fraud Coordinator in the Major Frauds Section at the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles and as an assistant United States attorney from July 2012 to November 2018.
The U.S. Department of Justice already has publicly charged almost 500 defendants with criminal offenses based on fraud schemes connected to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, these prosecutions can have unintended consequences on unsuspecting businesses, as many of these accused individuals actually work as employees for uninvolved companies. As employees, they may have utilized their access to confidential employee or client information at work to create the alle...
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